F12 alpha needs network during install?

[Joachim Backes]

On 08/28/2009 01:44 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Joachim Backes wrote:
>
>> I installed F12 alpha from the DVD and had the feeling that the
>> network is used during installation. So the installation was awful
>> slow.
>>
>> For confirming this, I tried to install again after having
>> de-activated the LAN chip in the BIOS, and, indeeded, the
>> installation was cancelled (after the install partition had been
>> formatted).
>>
>> Is there any option for installing F12 without accessing the LAN (I
>> have DSL with 1 Megabit/sec)?
>
>    this sounds suspiciously like an issue i ran into some time back
> with a *virtual* installation on F11

I was not *virtually* installing, but on a real HD partition.

  -- the network was being used
> despite there being no reason for it.  maybe it's related, maybe not.
>
> rday
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Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

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